Eemedial powdee



PatentedSept. 3, 1895.

(No Model.)

B. S. GILLS. REMEDIAL POWDER APPLYING DEVICE. 6'79.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD S. GILLS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BEMEDIAL POWDER-APPLYING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,679, dated September 3, 1895.

Application filed April 1'7, 1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD S. 0111s, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Remedial Powder-Applying Devices, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a bottle-stopper which is adapted to permit the ready appli-' cation of remedial or medicinal powders into the nostrils or mouth. To this end I employ a stopper having a cavity therein, and a vent or port which is in communication with the atmosphere and said cavity, the construction and operation being hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure 1 represents a sectional view of a remedial powder-applying device embodying my invention and a portion of a bottle to which the same is applicable. Fig. 2 represents said device withdrawn from the bottle. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the said device, showing the manner of applying and using the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bottle-stopper, and B a cavity in the plug thereof. The wall of said cavity has an airinlet port or ports D, the same leading from the atmosphere into said cavity, preferably near the base thereof, it being understood that when the plug is inserted in a bottle the neck thereof will close said port or ports, so. that the contents cannot escape or lose their strength, one or more ports being employed, as may be desired.

The operation is as follows: A bottle is supplied with remedial or medicinal powder and the stopper is inserted in the same. The bottle is now inverted, whereby the cavity of the stopper will be charged with said powder Serial No. 645,988. (No model.)

air-inlet port or ports D. The ports D extend obliquely inwardly from the side wall of the cavity or chamber B to the base thereof, by

which provision the powder will not escape through said parts, while however readily admitting air into said cavity or chamber when the powder is inhaled at the base of said chamber, thus effectively blowing the powder outwardly and avoiding clogging of the same in any portion of the chamber.

The plug is tapering, so as to be readily inserted at its open end into the nose when the latter is to be treated for catarrh, and the cavity is of-inverted conicalfofin, so that the widest portion is at the end of the plug where it is inserted into the nose, by which provision the cavity may be readily filled when the bottle is overturned and the least quantity of powder is at the base of the cavity, where the air ducts or ports communicate with the same, so that the entire charge of powder may be discharged from the cavity when inhaled by the nose at top, assisted by the indraft of air at the bottom.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A remedial powder-applying device consis ing of a plug, with a closed head and having a cavity in one end thereof, and a port in the side wall of said cavity, and above the bottom thereof whereby the latter is in communication with the atmosphere at both ends, said port extending obliquely inwardly and downwardly through said wall to the base of said cavity, substantially as described.

RICHARD S. CILLS.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

